Money No Object: The Mid-Engined 1978 Oldsmobile 442 Is Up For Auction!
Jun 05, 2017Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, eBay Find
What can you say about a car that has been covered front, back, and sideways? This 1978 Oldsmobile 442 has been around the block since it made the October 1978 cover of Hot Rod Magazine. You...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Guess Who’s Back, Back Again…
Jun 05, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Welcome to the halfway point of the year! Six months down, six months to go…and we’ve got all summer ahead of us! Since there’s a myriad of shows, races, events, builds, and other...
Factory Freak: Take A Closer Look At The Steam-Powered 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle!
Jun 04, 2017Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, ENGINES, Videos
In the quest for cleaner, safer energy, experiments have to be undertaken to provide validation to the theory someone has presented. Take turbine energy, for example: works great as a propulsion...
Spectator Drags From Beech Ridge – Mustangs Crashing, Stock Car G-bodies, And A Sliding Yukon!
Jun 04, 2017Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
Spectator drags are the equivalent of amateur night at the local wrestling joint. Pay a few bucks hoping to win a few bucks, hop into the ring with a bunch of people who have no business being there...
Rough Start: This 1978 Chevy Caprice Is A Great High-Schooler’s Car. Just Don’t Break That Rear Glass!
Jun 04, 2017Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, Craigslist Find
A while back I read a story on how putting a new driver into an older vehicle was somehow equivalent to child abuse. The line of thinking went something like this: after seeing a couple of old vs....
BangShift Test Drive: 2017 Ram 3500 Laramie Mega Cab 4×4 – Living Large In Every Way Possible
Jun 04, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift Road Tests, MOPAR, TRUCKS
Every generation gets their status-symbol vehicle. Be it the ultimate chrome barge from the 1950s, great Lincoln vs. Cadillac cars from the 1960s and 1970s, 1980s power sedans from BMW and Mercedes,...
Watch This Guy Fire Up A Screaming Axial Flow Micro Jet Engine On His Balcony – Think The Neighbors Freaked?
Jun 03, 2017Brian LohnesENGINES, Videos
There’s a pretty incredible culture of modelers and scale builders out there that we’re blown away by every time we stumble upon it. There are guys flying model airplanes, quarter scale...
Money No Object: The One Thunderbird That Lohnes Would Happily Drive?
Jun 03, 2017Bryan McTaggarteBay Find, FORD
Ford Thunderbirds are a kind of polarizing topic around here. Lohnes only likes the two-seaters and wishes the rest were shredded into a fine metallic mist. I’m actually not that big of a fan...
In Memoriam: Tom Tjaarda, Designer Extrordinaire – From Ford Fiestas To Dream Cars, From His Vision
Jun 03, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
The range of vehicles that the man born Stevens Thompson Tjaarda van Starkenburg knows almost no limit. In his eighty-two years on earth, he created some of the most memorable designs, from basic...
Rough Start: A Chevelle May Be Pricey, But This 1972 Chevrolet El Camino Is Just Within The Budget!
Jun 03, 2017Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, Craigslist Find, TRUCKS
I want a Chevelle. You may want a Chevelle. My wife wants a Chevelle. Everybody I know wants a Chevrolet Chevelle. There’s just one problem: there were only so many produced, only so many...
Can A Clapped-Out Malibu Run Nines For Under $2,000? This Guy Is Trying!
Jun 03, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CHEVY
We love a good budget build around here. Mainly because we all are working underneath a budget. What can we say…we aren’t farmers, we can’t grow cash trees. But you can have fun for...
Unhinged: A GoFundMe Account To Pay Off A Honda Owner’s Speeding Ticket For Dusting A Mustang!
Jun 03, 2017Bryan McTaggartUnhinged
I’ll be up-front about it: on the whole, I dislike GoFundMe campaigns. Why? Because for every truly worthy cause (such as the campaign to raise money for Chad and Daphne that was started by a...
Old For A Reason: Check Out This 1922 Walker Floor Jack For Sale On Craigslist!
Jun 03, 2017Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find
Readers, thank forum member Andrew Crouch for this find, because he dug into Craigslist much, much farther than I normally do. I go hunting for random cars, but he wins this week’s top find...
Morning Symphony: Drifting A Talbot Lotus Sunbeam, Chrysler’s Last Gasp In Europe
Jun 02, 2017Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
What does a Talbot hatchback have to do with Chrysler? It goes like this: Starting in the late 1950s, Chrysler started buying interests in European auto manufacturers, emulating the successes that...
